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The Emperors New Clothes - Preview Screening - TONIGHT @ 6.30pm, Carlton, VIC

Michael Winterbottom, celebrated director of 24 Hour Party People, The Road to Guantanamo, and The Trip, joins forces with actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand for that most unlikely of documentary approaches: an uproarious critique of the world financial crisis.

Building on Brand’s emergence as an activist following his 2014 book Revolution, where he railed against “corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility, and economic inequality,” The Emperor’s New Clothes pairs archival footage with comedic send-ups conducted in the financial centers of London and New York.

Brand spotlights not only how the crisis affected the working class around the world, but also how the uber-wealthy benefited from the downturn. With Winterbottom providing his signature ingenuity and pinpoint directorial control, they generate a riveting, boisterous, and, at times, cathartic riff on the extreme disparities between the haves and have nots in contemporary society.

Running time: 1hr 41mins

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Geq8dM13k

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  [Deactivated] on 10/06/2015 - 15:20

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  I havent watched THE EMPERORS OLD CLOTHES is that an issue?

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    ozhunter on 10/06/2015 - 15:37

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    Such a jv comment. lol

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  smokenmirraz on 10/06/2015 - 15:38

  Sounds like it'll be another hilarious comedy from Brand.

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  hashtagbargain on 10/06/2015 - 16:20

  Wow the reviews are scathing! Exhibit A: IMDB

  Worthless Celebrity Parasite Tells Proles How To Change The World
  5 May 2015 | by Theo Robertson (Isle Of Bute , Scotland) – See all my reviews
  There's a couple of things Russell Brand doesn't do . One is saying no to drugs and the other one is celibacy . Within a couple of minutes of watching this pseudo documentary it becomes clear that Brand doesn't do irony either . What an abysmal idea for a documentary - get a failed stand up comedian , failed movie actor , a former smack head and someone was formerly married to multi million selling singer and hot Goddess Katy Perry telling us long suffering proles that life is unfair and corporate capitalism is running the world and is being run by greedy people

  "Hold on Theo . I thought you were centre left , always self righteously telling the world and its wife you're on the side of the proletariat"

  Indeed I am and will always be on the side of the working class till I die . I spent Thursday afternoon going to a job interview for a menial job paying basic minimum wage in the middle of nowhere and because it was in the middle of nowhere I actually missed my stop on the bus so had a long trek to the prospective interview . Then the skies opened soaking me so turned up for the interview half an hour late , soaked . That's the reality of life for the proletariat in Britain today . It could have been worse and so far this year a million people in Britain have applied to food banks the 21st Century version of the soup kitchen . There's people worse off than me , much worse and yet it's the proletarian voices that are ignored and for some reason the left wing media like The Guardian , the Independent and The New Statesman feel the need to put up hideous middle class leftist parodies like Brand , Owen Jones and Laurie Penny as spokespeople for the underclass , people who have never spent one moment in the real world

  From the outset the irony - dare I say hypocrisy ? - comes thick and fast . Brand tells us "Everything you hear about in this film you already know" duh so why bother making a documentary on something we already know ? . "The rich are getting richer and inequality is getting greater . Of course rich people like you to think it has to be this way so they - we - have to be rich" . Russell you are rich and we're not . What's your point here ? Oh a case of grandstanding perhaps ? An element of "Oh look at how outraged and grief stricken I am . I'm a better person than you because I'm so outraged and grief stricken and you're not" Brand then talks to a single mother from his hometown and the mother tells him that she's working but reliant on benefits such as working tax credits . Again this is the reality of millions of working class people but Brand treats this as the greatest revelation in the history of mankind which probably says more about Brand than it does about the working class

  Brand then does something ridiculous and equates the collapse of the Lehman Brothers financial services with the riots in England in 2011 . Agreed it was disgraceful that the banks got bailed out by state governments . Likewise it's disgraceful that these governments didn't have any warning that the global meltdown was coming . These governments are every bit as guilty as the people running Lehman Brothers , but to suggest there's any connection between the banking crisis and the 2011 riots is ridiculous , The riots started off as a protest about the police shooting a man they believed was armed and a riot happened in Tottenham and over England the next few nights . This had absolutely nothing to do with banks and very little to do with the guy who got shot . The name Mark Duggan was quickly forgotten while the riots were ongoing . Brand then interviews someone called Reece was jailed after the riots for theft . Reece felt a bit hard done by for getting 14 months for stealing an I-pod but luckily because he works as a dance teacher ( A famous career path for disenfranchised proles) he got 14 months instead of 21 months . Reece and Brand can console themselves that it's gutless do gooders running the country , If I was up to me I'd have mobilised the army and had looters shot on sight , a train of thought that was very popular amongst the innocent working class people up in the riots

  And so the documentary continues as Russell Brand a worthless celebrity parasite outraging against the unfairness of life and economics in a documentary obviously made to appeal to other like minded middle class parasites who have never spent anytime in the cruel , indifferent real world . Brand has a chance to do something this week by voting for a political party not scared to take on corporate fat cats Brand has spent the election campaign by telling people not to vote . Until the last few days where he told everyone to vote Labour the party that introduced food banks , useless work providers and bailed out the banks with billions of pounds of tax payers money . Well I'm voting for the centre left Scottish National Party because they actually stand for something and hopefully they'll make it too expensive for rich , worthless parasites like Brand to live in the UK any more . Goodbye Russell and you won't be missed and give my regards to your ex-wife next time your in your mansion in California

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    whaddadeal on 10/06/2015 - 18:20

    I'm not too sure if you were simply making a comment that there is one scathing review or agree with the sentiments of the reviewer and thus copied and pasted it to share your views - but this review is rubbish! Its just a tirade attacking Russel Brand for the most ridiculous reasons.

    Calling a reformed drug addict a smackhead? jeez…

    This sort of stuff should be looked at and ignored, not forwarded.